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We have made some progress on the Whangawehi logo so please have a look at the suggestions and share your feedback with us.
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Whangawehi story on Predator Free NZ website
Predator free NZ put up the Whangawehi story on their website. If you want to know more about the article, please follow the links :
http://predatorfreenz.org/local-marae-community-inspires-environmental-change/
or facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PFNewZealand/
Enjoy the reading
Whangawehi Logo
On Thursday the 19th of May, Patricia Taumata-Albert and Hineira Hooper-Kawana, students at Te Mahia School, gave their pepeha and introduced themselves to the members of the catchment committee. Both students displayed their completed logo’s and explained their perspective of how the logo should look and the process that it took to achieve their end result. A clear file of some of the children’s attempts at the logo was left for the members to peruse.
We thank you Te Mahia School for their help and support. It is great to have the students involved in all the different aspects of our work including the design of our logo.
Nga mihi nui kia koutou
Please click on the different sketches : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Whangawehi Finalist at the Green Ribbon Award
Hi all,
The Whangawehi community has been given the opportunity to compete as a finalist (for the third time) at the Green Ribbon Award. This nomination recognises the outstanding effort of the WCMG to protecting the environment. Congratulations to you to you all for this National recognition.
Newsletter 7 has arrived
Newsletter 7 is now available, follow the link and enjoy the reading :
Water monitoring at Whangawehi
On Tuesday, Arthur Bowen undertook his water monitoring run as part of the Whangawehi Catchment water monitoring plan. This month, Arthur carried out the Macro Community Invertebrate Index which is a way of assessing the health of a stream by studying and following the communities (or bugs) that live in it. This study is carried out every year and we hope that over time our ” bugs” will tell us how healthy is our Awa.
Arthur observed some very low water levels for the season with some algae growth in places. White baits and native fish were observed in small numbers.
Nga Whenua Rahui audit
Rangimarkus Heke, Fund Manager for Nga Whenua Rahui, came to visit the site yesterday. He was impressed by the work achieved so far and full of compliments. Trees have grown a lot over the summer due to a reasonably moist climate and a good tree maintenance policy. Rangi got the opportunity to visit Pat’s wetlands and understood how all these ecosystems interact. With a significant increase in frog numbers this year, he was confident that the rare Bittern wouldn’t be long to come. Rangimarkus will be assisting the group with a new funding package via the MTK fund. Nga mihi Rangi.
Moemotu Station on board
On the 15th of April, Ross Mear and Kelvin Hale (co owners of Moemotu Station) signed the Whangawehi Catchment Managament Group’s Memorandum of Understanding. Both owners are extremely supportive of the group’s vision and it is great to have them on board. The owners’ vision is to gradually retire the station and let it revert to native trees.
We welcome Kelvin and Ross and are looking forward to working with them.
Photos on the way to Moemotu Station :
Maara Kai MasterChef with Te Mahia School
From Te Mahia blog : http://room3temahiaschool.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/maara-kai.html
On Tuesday we headed on down to Ruawharo Marae to have our Master Chef Maara Kai competition. We were all very excited and couldn’t wait to get started on our planned menu. To start with we watched Nanny Sophie demonstrate how to make a bull kelp steam bag. Some of us were lucky enough to do this with Nanny Sophie at the end of last year. We sliced open the kelp and stuffed it with our onion, potato, kumara and carrot. We then watched a demonstration by Chef Shaun, on how to make a delicious warm caramelised onion dip! We all agreed it tasted amazing and Whaea Jenni has agreed to share it with us all on the Te Mahia School facebook page! After that we began the prep on our own menus of a salad and a nutritious drink. It was awesome to see the teamwork involved, and the discussions between team members. It was an amazing day full of fun and food. The winning team was Mokotahi!
And we have a very awesome team of amazing Chefs heading into town next Wednesday to compete against other Wairoa Schools. The team is Patricia D, Anthony, Violet and Azure.
Kia Kaha Te Mahia Chefs!
Restoration update
The restoration programme is well underway. Yesterday, Graham Douglas (Forest Manager for Grandy Lake Forest), John Syme (Leasee of Homestead farm) and Nic Caviale Delzescaux (Project Coordinator) went for a field visit along the Whangawehi stream. The last piles of willows are burning after a long await for a rural fire permit. The remaining logs will be buried early next week just before the fencing contractor starts erecting a 3 km fence. The lay out of the fence line was discussed at length ! between the three parties. The field trip gave the opportunity to finalise the plans for the extension of the farm water supply to provide water for stock. Weather permitting the work should start soon.
Thank you to Burgis contracting and HBRC for assisting the group with their expertise and knowledge around tree extraction.
Whangawehi Catchment Management Group 